Incremental on-line adaptation of POMDP-based dialogue managers to extended domains

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 140-144

  Gasic M ^a   Kim, D ^a   Tsiakoulis, P ^a   Breslin, C ^a   Henderson, M ^a   Szummer, M ^a   Thomson, B ^a   Young, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gaussian processes; Spoken dialogue systems

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MANAGERS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

DIALOGUE MANAGER; GAUSSIAN PROCESSES; INCREMENTAL SCHEME; KERNEL FUNCTION; ON-LINE ADAPTATION; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84910048103     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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